12-12-2020, 10:59 AM
(12-12-2020, 09:24 AM)fitkoh Wrote: I think this is a good general rule to live by in terms of SEO. Quality, regular content is surely the best way to get high ranking; but is there still some benefit to be gained from structuring keywords, titles, and descriptions in the best way possible?
As one example: gigarocket cancelled their free vps service nearly a year ago, but it still ranks page 2 on google, and even gets a spot on the first page for duckduckgo. There's not a ton of content behind "free vps" at gigarocket (some, but only a small percentage of overall content) and yet that one "pillar page" seems to continue to perform very well. And of course there's the numerous scam sites like vpsgratis or vpswala that clog up the first few pages of google search, have no real content, haven't been updated, and continue to perform well in rankings.
There was also an expirement I conducted a few years ago on an automotive website. Over a period of months, I watched the website climb from page 10 to page 2 in google, but it wasn't the result of good, original content. I was using an autoblogging tool to scrape articles in the public domain and post them to blogs created around keywords related to automotive subjects. Each of the blogs was them used for backlinks to the ecommerce automotive site I wanted to boost in rankings.
I guess the point I'm trying to make is that while good content is surely the best way to go, there may be other avenues worth considering.
In the age of Machine Learning and AI, I think the mere content would cut it. The proof?
Check -for yourself- what 'post for vps' as a query will bring about (instead of 'free VPS'):
> https://duckduckgo.com/?q=post+for+vps&ia=web
> https://www.google.com/search?q=post+for+vps
They both have this forum as the first hit. It's all about the use of the right keywords to hit the target.
It would seem that to those 2 search engines P4V is a Post4VPS service as its domain name screams.
Just to be clear, I'm not against the 'right dose' of SEO in promoting any site; I just think that right now P4V is starving for quality content, such as this thread :-)